What If? Tenth Anniversary Edition By Randall Munroe (Hardback)
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITHA SPECIAL EDITION.
THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Nerd royalty’ BEN GOLDACRE
‘Totally brilliant’ TIM HARFORD
‘Required reading across the world’ NEW YORK TIMES
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informativeanswers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can youhit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on theBritish Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people thanliving? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat aday? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacksof declassified military research memos, solves differential equations andconsults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarityand hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the completeannihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revisedhis classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. Featuring brand-new 2-colourannotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave youfeeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not.
CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITHA SPECIAL EDITION.
THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Nerd royalty’ BEN GOLDACRE
‘Totally brilliant’ TIM HARFORD
‘Required reading across the world’ NEW YORK TIMES
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informativeanswers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can youhit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on theBritish Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people thanliving? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat aday? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacksof declassified military research memos, solves differential equations andconsults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarityand hilarity, complemented by comics. (They often predict the completeannihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)
In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revisedhis classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. Featuring brand-new 2-colourannotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition will leave youfeeling much smarter, whether you have a Nobel Prize or not.
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